Biwi No 1 Movie Review:슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Since Bollywood is currently big on re-releases - some even cashing in at the box office - we figured, why not revisit these films when they come out in theatres again? Not just to judge how good or bad they were, but to see how well they슬롯사이트™ve aged. While these movies may hold a warm nostalgic value for many of you, some have soured like milk that's been kept out for two decades, while others have aged like fine wine. With that in mind, let슬롯사이트™s talk about Biwi No 1, David Dhawan슬롯사이트™s star-packed 1999 comedy that슬롯사이트™s back in theatres. Honestly, though, did anyone ask for this?슬롯 머신 사이트 추천슬롯사이트˜Biwi No 1슬롯사이트™ Re-Release Date: Salman Khan and Karisma Kapoor슬롯사이트™s Iconic Film Returns to Theatres on November 29.

Here슬롯사이트™s where it gets awkward. I didn슬롯사이트™t like Biwi No 1 back in 1999, and I knew I wasn슬롯사이트™t going to love it now. It슬롯사이트™s not that I had some elevated cinematic taste when I was going through my awkward teenage phase then슬롯 머신 사이트 추천- my guilty pleasure back then was Taqdeerwala. But even as an ignorant adolescent, I couldn슬롯사이트™t stomach the movie슬롯사이트™s blatant misogyny, and worse, I didn슬롯사이트™t find it funny. Give me 'Yam Hai Hum' and 'Him Cream' any day over this! Okay, the songs slapped, I슬롯사이트™ll give it that.

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Biwi No 1 hit theatres on May 28, 1999 and became the second highest-grossing Bollywood film of the year, behind Hum Saath-Saath Hain, also starring Salman Khan, Karisma Kapoor, Tabu and Saif Ali Khan. Dhawan슬롯사이트™s film is a remake of Balu Mahendra슬롯사이트™s 1995 Tamil hit Sathi Leelavati, which starred Kamal Haasan, Ramesh Aravind, and Kovai Sarala. Sathi Leelavati itself borrowed its plot from the 1989 Hollywood comedy She-Devil, featuring Meryl Streep.

The story?

Oh, you know this one. Prem (Salman Khan), a business tycoon, is living his best life with his devoted wife Pooja (Karisma Kapoor, looking a million bucks), two kids, and his mother (Himani Shivpuri). Naturally, this makes him the perfect candidate to stray. Enter Rupali (Sushmita Sen, also looking a million bucks), a model who joins his company. Prem promptly falls for her and spins a web of lies to keep her around, even after she learns about his marriage.

A Still From Biwi No 1

When Pooja discovers the affair, Prem doubles down by leaving her and the kids for Rupali. Enter Lakhan (Anil Kapoor), Prem슬롯사이트™s best friend and enabler-in-chief, and Lakhan슬롯사이트™s boisterous wife Lovely (Tabu, goddamn looking a million bucks). Together, they help Pooja hatch a scheme to win her philandering husband back.

'Biwi No 1' Movie Review - A Time Capsule to Cheesiness of '90s Bollywood

Biwi No 1슬롯 머신 사이트 추천was certainly a relic of the슬롯 머신 사이트 추천슬롯사이트˜90s Bollywood.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천There are song sequences shot in Switzerland where the actors dance like no one's watching, yet there is a bunch of white folks looking awkwardly at them. Fake beards continue to fool characters even when they have known the person for years, and women are being hailed for forgiving cheating husbands because they did the ghar wraps.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Dhawan, in particular, seemed fixated on infidelity comedies during this era. Sirji, do you have anything to confess here? Also yes, it was also a time when Vashu Bhagnani's슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Pooja Entertainment used to deliver hits. Too low a blow? Sorry!

A Still From Biwi No 1

Biwi No 1 doesn슬롯사이트™t give you anyone to root for. Prem is a grade-A sleaze and, occasionally, a domestic abuser (which the film brushes off, because why not?). Rupali is written as a shallow gold-digger who seems to think rich husbands fall from the sky. Worse, she슬롯사이트™s made to look gullible so Prem슬롯사이트™s manipulations can keep the plot moving.

And then there슬롯사이트™s Pooja. Yes, she슬롯사이트™s been wronged, but her ultimate goal is to get her awful husband back, even after he clearly chooses Rupali over her. How does she do this? By painting Rupali as 슬롯사이트œevil슬롯사이트 while glossing over the fact that Prem is the actual villain. The movie even celebrates Rupali슬롯사이트™s humiliation슬롯사이트”applauding when she슬롯사이트™s slapped and treating it as a joke when Prem nearly kicks her.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Jackky Bhagnani Celebrates 25 Years of 'Biwi No.1' with This Adorable Clip Featuring Wife Rakul Preet Singh.

A Still From Biwi No 1

Even the supporting characters have questionable motives. Lakhan, the self-proclaimed moral compass, is just as shady - helping Prem cover up his infidelity before switching sides when the jig is up. Lovely is a rare exception: brash, unapologetic, and way too fun to have so little screentime. Casting Tabu and then sidelining her? That슬롯사이트™s Bollywood blasphemy.

'Biwi No 1' Movie Review - A Comedy That Fails to Amuse

And can we talk about missed opportunities? Dhawan chose not to recreate the hilarious "Marugo Marugo"슬롯 머신 사이트 추천sequence from Sathi Leelavati, picturised on Kamal Haasan and Kovai Sarala,슬롯 머신 사이트 추천and instead gave us the슬롯 머신 사이트 추천forgettable 슬롯사이트œMehboob Mere슬롯사이트 in a random foreign location. In hindsight, maybe it슬롯사이트™s for the best - he슬롯사이트™d probably have ruined it anyway.

If anything, Biwi No 1 has aged worse than I expected. The narrative flow is choppy, with scenes clumsily stitched together as if to distract viewers with star power and peppy songs. But the distractions don슬롯사이트™t work. Case in point: the bizarre 슬롯사이트œHai Mirchi슬롯사이트 sequence, where Lakhan dresses as Daler Mehndi and Pooja turns into a wannabe pop diva to make Prem jealous. I슬롯사이트™ve spent 25 years trying to figure out what David Dhawan was going for there슬롯사이트”and I still don슬롯사이트™t know.

And that clown in the title track? Haunting. Who thought it was a good idea to have a random man dressed as a clown dancing in someone슬롯사이트™s home? It was not cute back in 1999, and it슬롯사이트™s even creepier now.

A Still From Biwi No 1

The women - Karisma Kapoor and Sushmita Sen - do the heavy lifting here. Despite being saddled with terrible writing, they inject some life into their characters. Salman Khan,슬롯 머신 사이트 추천who was going through his best looking phase then (how many gyms owned their business to him then!),슬롯 머신 사이트 추천was also stuck in his 'cartoon voice' acting phase. I once thought슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Anil Kapoor was the best of the lot when I watched the movie in 1999. I hadn't watched Sathi Leelavati then.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천 Now that's done, the actor pales in comparison to what Kamal Haasan슬롯 머신 사이트 추천had so brilliantly brought to the table in Sathi Leelavati. Oh, and there슬롯사이트™s Saif Ali Khan in a슬롯 머신 사이트 추천thankless슬롯 머신 사이트 추천cameo - a reminder of just how close he was to fading into a 'Rajat Bedi' before Dil Chahta Hai saved him.

'Biwi No 1' Movie Review - Final Thoughts

Anu Malik슬롯사이트™s soundtrack still slaps (no pun intended), but Biwi No 1? Not so much. It슬롯사이트™s a relic best left in the '90s. Rewatch it only if you슬롯사이트™re in the mood for a nostalgia trip that doubles as a reminder of how far Bollywood still has to go because our movies still want the wives to forgive their a-hole husbands. Looking at you, Animal!

PS: We do not want to disrespect your sense of nostalgia, so the movie ratings given for these re-releases are mostly for how well they have aged in time. This one didn't.

Rating:2.0

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